| This study examined the use of modifiers by school-age children. The participants were twenty-eight children between the ages of 6 and 8 years old. One group included fourteen children with typically developing language, and the second group of fourteen children met criteria for Developmental Language Disorder. The participants were age-matched within +/-6 months for comparison. Each participant created three narratives elicited from the Test of Narrative Language, 3rdedition. The narratives were transcribed and coded for three elements of modification: adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. Each modifier category was calculated as a proportion of the child’s total words in the sample. A repeated measures ANOVA revealed no main effect for group. No statistically significant difference in the proportion of modifierswas found between the two groups. There was, however, a difference in the three categories, with prepositional phrases used most frequently.Key Words: developmental language disorder, modification, modifiers, language sample analysis, school-age children, language assessment, narrative |